About the Author

During a 50-year career living in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and dozens of rigorous twists and turns later along California State Highway 49's steep river canyons, a family trip in 1972 gave a first impression of Sutter's Mill leading to creating the author's new book, California Gold Country Explorer. Over one-fifth of the entire Golden State once were tent and mining camps, gold discovery, underground shafts, and ghost towns, set in the most beautiful recreational areas of California. Beginning 1994, the author's alliance with museums, industries, and smaller entrepreneurs, led to collecting the stories of pioneers and historical spots during the 1849 California Gold Rush period into the present day, as brought forward in 14 Gold Country Tours published in small colorful visitor guides on the area. The author extended production through 2009, publishing over 75 printed color magazines on California touring. His knowledge of the area businesses, B&Bs, hotels, restaurants, wineries and breweries, are subjects he met along the way, meeting with the owners and creating videos, brochures, tourist magazines, and editorials, while living in Nevada City and Grass Valley in the Sierra Nevada Foothills.